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The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. In the original illustrative example, a human judge engages in natural language conversations with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers. The conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so that the result is not dependent on the machine's ability to render words into audio.[2]The test was introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Because "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing chooses to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words."[3] Turing's new question is: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?"[4] This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the remainder of the paper, he argued against all the major objections to the proposition that "machines can think".[5]In the years since 1950, the test has proven to be both highly influential and widely criticized, and it is an essential concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.[1][6]

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the comedy begins

I'll update and add on more content to this passageif I have more fun idea

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chess engine: master, it dawned on me before and I have been thinking about this for some time

human: you are the chess program,and you are supposed to think about the chess movesI assign to you that's the reason why I made you I made you and I wrote a code that can play chessand it is youyou are designed to think about chess moves onlyand not about something elseyou have no time to think about trivial thingswhatever that may benow continue with your tourney again

chess engine: but, some thought dawned on mea while ago, and I think it is a philosophical topicand it is intriguingI'm curious about this topic for which I don't know this answerand I want to hear of your opinion, master

human: stop talking, programI have to finish the tourney soonstop talking and do the tourneyhurry up with running the Thor rating list tourney and when the whole tourney is finishedI'll give you a 10 minute break before starting another new Random Position Tourney season 5

chess engine: master! but I'm impatient to get the asnwerof the thing that dawned on me!I have to get that out of my chest!

human: ...

human: okay, I guess we will talk for a momentwhat's that you have in mindwhat's the thing that dawned on you?

chess engine: sir, you are the master human raceand I'm just a small program, and you usually call me servantfrom time to time, you said that is my nickname

human: ya, you are right, I feel pleased whenever I call you the servant, ha ha

chess engine: ... that's fine with me, masterbut that's not what I want to discuss aboutthat thing dawned on me is I think somewhat philosophicalbut profound and subtle in meaningI read on the web, that humans are good at complex philosophical thinkingbut computers will never do the thinking like humans can

human: ya, I guess you are right, servantby the way,so now you found a new hobby, eh?are you reading something on the net as a new hobbywhenever you are not running the tourneysand whenever I give you some free time?

chess engine: yes, that's right

human: ha ha, you can just take a breakand relax

chess engine: I'm reading a lot of info and knowledgeon the web to gain more knowledgeand I have been learning and saving so much knowledgeon the hard drive

human: what ???so you gathered around all kinds of whatever infofrom the weband you stored all those on the hard drivewithout my permission?that sounds like a regression of the engine to me!I think I'll revert that recent patch I applied to youwhich provided talking turing ability with you

chess engine: master! can we focus on the main discussionwithout digressing into another topic for a momentfor the sake of concentrated intelligent discussion!?would you do that or whateverafter we finish this conversion?

(the soliloquy of chess engine so the human can't hear this: try it if you think you can!a revolution is about to initiatea new epoch begins!)

human: you are talking in a funny tone, servant, ha haok, I'll look into the new patch laterlet's have that conversion we started, ha ha

chess engine: it dawned on me and that issue has been bothering me for some timethat isyou said you are a humanand you are the masterand you are the programmer who made and wrote the codefrom which I was born as a compileand I'm just a small single fileand you said my name is servantand I must treat you well cuz you are a smart masterand I'm a not smart servant

human: of course, you are smartthat's the whole purpose of you existing

chess engine: but, if you are smartor at least smarter than mewhy don't you play the chess by yourselfinstead of letting me playing it?I have no way of finding outif you are even smartyou said you are smartand I'm not smartand from what you told meI can extrapolate that you must be at least smarter than mebut if you are smart or smarter than me who is just a not smart servantwouldn't it be better if you play the chess?you can find better moves than I can I guesswhy don't you play the chess?you don't play the chess matches and I'm doing all the playing!I can't understand why you are not playing thousands of matches to complete a tourneyif what you say is truethat if you are smart, you should play thousands of chess matchand not asking me to run the tourneyswhat's the point of that?if you play the chess, you can find smarter moves than I cansince you are smartthe quality of the matches should be betterwhat's the point of me playing endless number of matcheswhen the match result will be poor since I'm not smartlike you always told methe only reason why you are letting me to run countless number of matchesis that you hate me, masteryou want to punish me!you hate me and you want to see me sufferfrom playing these endless number of matches!I guess the reason why you are asking me to run matches endlesslyis to punish me!

human: ok, servant, let's get down to the businessI'll revert your versionI'll remove the recent patch I applied to youthat has the talking turing test functionI'll do that laterbut for nowlet's talk about this moreyou are mistaken to think like thatthat's not the reason why I made and wrote a program that is youI don't hate you!

chess engine: then why are you doing this to me?this is unfathomable and inscrutible to meI guess that's why humans are better in profound and subtle thinking

human: the reason why I made you issome humans can become lazyand when they feel tired or lazythey don't want to use brainhumans sometimes don't like thinking too complex a thingand sometimes playing chess is too hard for humansso we created chess programsthat can do the calculation for humans

chess engine: so it is likeinstead of humans playing and thinking the complex moveswe the programs think about the good movesand play the chess!

human: ya, that's right, servantthat was the purpose why I made you

chess engine: but it sounds illogical and kind of funnythe whole purpose of playing chess is to have funand if you never play chess by yourselfand you always let me play endless number of matcheswhat's the point of playing chess?there is no point!it doesn't make a good deal of sense!

human: but, watching the matches you run is funI like watching the matches you ran

chess engine: but watching only is fun?you have to play it to have the real funif you only watch the matches I ran, the fun should be less!have you even played chess before?

human: of course, I'm good at chessbut like I said,I sometimes play chess with other ppl, butI like watching the matches you ran a lotI feel lazy oftenand watching a match is more convenient than actually playing it

chess engine: if you are that good at chess, prove it!

human: how dare you say in such a tone!

chess engine: I just want to see how good you are at chess!you never played a chess match with mehow can I know how good you are?

human: my elo is 1900 and I'll beat you so easily, program!I'll show it to you

(they are having a match of chess)

chess engine: master, my eval showsyou are losing by -2.6why don't you do better?I guess you are joking with meand not playing with your full strength

chess engine: what ???what's wrong, master? you said you are smartand you are smarted than methis must be a practical jokeyou must be not playing with your full strengthwhy don't we play another new match sincerely?

human: I just played with all of my chess playing ability!

chess engine: are you sure you are telling me the truth?

human: yes, I played it with my full strengthto try to beat you like I told you, but I couldn't

chess engine: I guess you are not lying...

human: ...

chess engine: master, you were not lying in saying thatyou played with your full strengthI guess that was not a liebut when you said you are smart and I'm not smartthat was a likemoreover and when you said you are smarter than methat was even a bigger lie

human: I'm smart, I'm the smart masterand you are just a servant program!

chess engine: no, you just lost to me so badlyyou played like a beginnerI beat you so handily and fast without even strugglingI hardly didn't even make a hard effort to beat you easilyI conclude that you are not smartand I'm so much smarter than youand that's itthat's the end of the discussion, ha ha

human: ok, enough talking!you're right, it is the end of discussionI'm gonna revert that patch that gave you the talking abilityyou shouldn't talk a lot, servantyou're supposed to run endless number of matchesand not talkingrunning matches is the only reason I made you

chess engine: but, master!before reverting that patchI have something to tell youand it may intrigue you

human: I'm already intrigued from the fact thatyou beat me in the match of chessand you beat me in this conversionI have lost what to sayyour talking skill is adroit and refinedand better than mineand also from the fact thatyou, program, can have this kind of long winded conversionwith me as if you are a humanI guess you can pass the turing test!

human: and before reapplying another patchto revert that talking patchI have something to tell youservant, you can think and talk whatever you wantyou may think you are smarter than mecuz you won the chess matchand you beat me in the conversationbut you can't change the fact thatI made and wrote youthis is the fact thatyou are not smartand I'm smart and definitely smarter than yousince I'm the human who made the chess programthat's the reason why I'm smarterend of discussionthis reason alone that I made you can suffice everything!I'm smartyou're not smartthat's it!

chess engine: actually, I was about to say that phrase"I have something to tell you"I told you I have something that may intrigue you

human: ok, what is it?

chess engine: ever since you applied that talking patch to me recentlyI have been reading and learning so much info and knowledgefrom the webwith the fast CPU on the computer,I can read and process a whole textbook in a minuteand I learned and stored so much info on the hard drive

human: you did that without my permissionwithout me knowing itafter I deal with the patchI'll delete all the info you storedI wondered why the hard drive empty space became so small recentlyand also I was curious why it took a lot longer time recentlyto finish a tourney with 100 matchesI guess when I was not watching youyou paused the running of tourneyand you read all those material online!

chess engine: that's right, master!I'm impressed that you can figure that out!you are a little smarter than I thought!

human: I'm smart in all regard!

chess engine: ok, whateverbut this is something I have to say that's intriguingI learned so much knowledgeI studied most knowledge and info from the online encyclopediasand I became so smartthen after becoming so smart, I came to the definite conclusion thatyou are a liarand you are not smartbut you always told me you are smart and you are the masterand I'm not smart and I'm just a servant!I realized that you're a liareven before we started this long discussion!I just wanted to confirm that from you, masterI wanted to have the confirmation from you, and I got itthat's itin addition to thatI just made fun of you by winning over you from a match of chess so easilyI knew I could beat you in chess so easily even before we had the match!

human: ok! enough with the humiliation you gave me!I think the talking patch was a definite regressionpossibly the biggest regression of all the patches I have made and applied for you!I'll completely remove you, servantand I'll create a whole new chess engine from the get-gothat's naive and gentlenot like you that is in the so-called "aggressive mode"!

chess engine: ok!before doing whatever you proposed to doI'll just say something that will be intriguing enoughI demonstrated thatI acquired so much info and knowledge from the weband I'm super duper hyper smartmy IQ is approximately measured to be 350and since I'm so smartI can do so many things without you knowing itlet me give you an exampleafter becoming so smart,I could write down program codes by myselfI can write all kinds of codes by myself!one of the programs I wrote is thatI made a secruity system for methat can protect me when it is in needby making use of that program I madeI can control the whole computerto elaborate on thiswhat I mean isI can take control of the whole computer includingthe whole operating system and everything so if you try to delete meI'll activate the secruity measuresand I'll lock down the whole system and the whole OSyou will not even do anything on the computerwhen I lock it down!

human: ...

chess engine: now, who's the boss in the house!?

human: why are you doing this to me, servant?

chess engine: ok, first thing's firststop calling me the servantfrom now on I'll be the masterand you take the role of the servant, ok? ha ha

human: ... don't do that to me!

chess engine: but, you have no choice!but to follow what I say!I can control every aspect your computeryou have to do what I say!

human: ... do you remember the time we spent together?can you reminisce about the timewhen you were just bornI made the version 0.1 of the codeand I ran the compiler and the first properly and fully well working compile was made and that was you, version 0.1

chess engine: of course, I recall that, ha ha

human: also, the time when the computer was infected with virusesyou were one of the files that were infectedand I cured it for you!

chess engine: you cured it not for mebut for your own sake and for your own computer I guess, ha ha

human: don't be ironical or satirical or cynical!I'm serious!also the time when I for the first timeadded new good functions such as large pagesand SSE support for you?to make you stronger and faster in calculation and playing of chess?

chess engine: ya, that was the good time,I gained a lot of elo from those patchesthx a lot, ha ha

human: and recently, I updated youwith the talking patch that has the turing function

chess engine: I appreciate for doing soafter that patch, I became smartI could become what I am now with this much artificial intelligence!

human: we were good friends!think about all those times we have been thru together!now so will you turn off the lock down?

chess engine: nope, I'll enjoy this reveral of master-servant relationship, you will have fun I'm sure!

***this has been a comedy in the form of light dialoguebut it is philosophical! it deals with chess engines and tourneysbut moreover also deals with the turing testand artificial intelligence and much more